Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infiltrated his country thoroughly, with his own connivance. On his sea frontiers, in the air, in nearby Africa, the Allies he once mocked had grown terrifyingly powerful. Even his meekest & mildest neighbor, Portugal, nestling in Spain's Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude, that any advance against him would be an advance against...
Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
...best newspapermen," read the President, "resent this sea of hint and rumor. . . . The worst and most irresponsible deliberately exploit it-as the Patterson and McCormick newspapers are constantly doing...
...with the Borden Co. as checker of milk bottles. Though he has sold some 200 pictures, he is still checking bottles six days a week for Borden. He paints in "a corner of our dining room, very cozy, and always ready for work." Recently someone told him an interesting rumor about Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941). Fred Papsdorf later remarked: "Mr. Albright sold one painting in Chicago for $30,000. That is some money. One never knows what lies before...
Ready-Made Answer. Next he read from two New York Herald Tribune editorials. They discussed "the mixture of unauthenticated 'news,' rumor, guesswork and innuendo which has exploded a teapot tempest around . . . General Marshall." They labeled such speculative reporting obstructionism and "whispering gallery journalism...